My old pc need a upgrade or the garbage

[spydygo]

Hi,
I had a better pc than that but the fire have take her to hell.
Well I bought a 500 hundred dollar pc for the between.5 month have pass, and I need a upgrade.
MY 500 dolllar pc
amd semptron processor 1,6mhz rated 2.8
512 ram ddr 400mhz pc-3200
motherboard asus k8-mx AGP
videocard via s3g 64mb(integred)

I tought of buying a geforce7600gs and 1gig of ram.When I will buy a new motherboard and a new processor I will be screw. Because the new mother will be probably be ddr 2 and pci-e.AGP will probably dissapear in few months and the ram will not be compatible.SO this option dont work.Or maybe I am wrong. This years I dont have the money to buy a whole pc ,I have only 350 dollar max .

Some questions
Can I put ddr ram in a ddr2 slot
Do you think AGP technologie will be here in some years
Can i put my single precessor in a dual core motherboard

thx

[billrobertson42]

If you do not have much money now I would add RAM and not spend money on a video card that won't work in your next PC. ZBrush will use the RAM but the video card does not matter much.

[lemonnado]

What Bill said. Get Ram, forget anything else. AGP is dead btw...
All PCI Bus now.
Lemo

[Escape]

Spydygo,

"Can I put ddr ram in a ddr2 slot"
- No, DDR has 184 pins and DDR2 has 240 pins

"Do you think AGP technologie will be here in some years"
- No, Get PCI-E and make sure it's also DX10.

"Can i put my single precessor in a dual core motherboard"
- Not with the processor you stated, But it is possible with AMD's new DSDC F-Socket architecture.

I would do as stated in the previous posts and get some more DDR 400 ram. I found a stick of 512 for as low as $33 USD and a 1Gig stick for as low as $57 USD.

Hope this helps,
Escape

[spydygo]

hi,
thx
i will probably buy a really cheap videocard just for zmapper work lol

[billrobertson42]

If it fits your budget then go for it. Zbrush won't be much affected, but probably just about everything else will. :)

On the other hand, a 10000RPM drive will probably make a bigger difference to Zbrush, and if that's all you're doing with the PC it will help. (Have fun transferring the system ;) )

[spydygo]

Hi
i have just done my big shopping :lol:
radeon 9550 128 mb 52 dollars
( it suck but at least I will be able to use zmapper I had a better video card tha n that 3 years ago lol)
1024 mb ddr 400 75 dollars
and usb 2 memory 2gig 37 dollars
total 182 taxes include dollars
so around 150 usd

Well I hope the pcs in my futur college will be better than that, The updates will give something to hold on this summer lol.

p,s Now I have 100 dollars saved for my next pc:eek:

thank you